Show Quarter Mile Road Pays Pay s Big Profits How would you ou like to own a railroad railroad rail rail- road only a quarter of a mile long make the shippers load their goods ran ran-I and furnish the power to haul them i and yet receive from it a tidy income of several thousand dollars a year This is the fortunate position of the I proprietor of the Grand Island railway probably the shortest and best paying I I line in the world I Grand Island is in the Athabasca river river riv riv- j I er the route to the fur trading posts i of the Canadian northwest and it di- di j di-j I that stream into two dangerous rapids Supplies for the forts are sent up by scows which come down laden I with valuable cargoes of furs One or ot orthe I the rapids is navigable but there is always danger of an upset so freight is unloaded at one end of the Island sent across by rail and the empty boat takes its chances in the troubled waters The equipment of the line consists of or two ancient trucks the rails being of wood faced iron For the privilege of f loading their freight on these cars and pushing them by hand across I t the e narrow strip of land the boatman I pays a ton The charge for carrying carrying carrying car car- a boat Is 10 The Grand Island railway has been in existence fifty years during which time it has reI returned re re- re- re I turned a profit of a million dollars |